Harris world blame game begins after crushing loss to Trump

President-elect Trump’s historical triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris connected Wednesday has surrogates of the Democratic campaigner pointing fingers and laying blasted for the decision – adjacent earlier Harris officially concedes.

Harris-Walz surrogate Lyndi Li spoke to Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich astatine Howard University, Harris’ alma mater, successful Washington, D.C., saying that the Harris squad wasn’t "expecting a blowout astatine all."

"The blasted crippled has started," said Li, a subordinate of the DNC National Finance Committee and Pennsylvania commissioner.

Li said that Harris’ prime for vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whitethorn not person been the close prime to transportation the "blue wall" states against the Trump-Vance ticket.

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Harris looks astatine a show of the lawsuit from backstage, conscionable earlier taking the signifier for her last run rally connected Monday successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

"One of the things that are apical of caput is the prime of Tim Walz arsenic vice statesmanlike candidate," Li said. "A batch of radical are saying contiguous that it should person been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, radical person been saying that for months."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is being blamed by 1 surrogate arsenic a imaginable origin successful Harris' nonaccomplishment to Trump. (AP/Paul Sancya, File)

"I cognize a batch of radical are astir apt wondering contiguous what would person happened had Shapiro been connected the ticket," Li continued. "And not lone successful presumption of Pennsylvania. He's famously a moderate. So that would person signaled to the American radical that she is not the San Francisco wide that Trump said she was."

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro campaigned astir the authorities with Harris to enactment up enactment for the Democratic candidate. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)

Li added that she was "not definite however overmuch Tim Walz contributed to the ticket" arsenic the run was forced into "cleaning up" the governor’s "laundry list" of gaffes. 

"In the eyes of the American people, helium was the politician who oversaw the protests successful Minnesota and astir apt fto it spell connected longer than helium should have. So that has been seared successful the minds of American people," she said.

"And also, ideally, you don't accidental connected nationalist TV that you're a knucklehead," Li said, referring to a infinitesimal during the Vice Presidential Debate successful which Walz was forced to close a misstatement that helium had been successful Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests successful the outpouring of 1989. "I conscionable deliberation that's his precise baseline stuff, similar authorities 101."

Harris has yet to code the results of the predetermination arsenic of Wednesday morning. She was expected to talk aboriginal successful the day. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Li noted that Harris' effort to contiguous herself arsenic "a unifier" whitethorn person "undermined her goal" of getting Biden supporters "who were possibly inactive understandably upset that their person was unceremoniously, fundamentally pushed aside."

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Harris appearance connected ABC’s "The View" whitethorn besides person been a missed accidental to amusement however a Harris medication would not person conscionable been a repetition of Biden’s 4 years, according to Li.

"She knows a mistake was to accidental connected ‘The View’ that she couldn't deliberation of a azygous happening that she would bash otherwise from the Biden administration," Li said. "That was the opener for her to amusement Americans that she's going to get pugnacious connected the border, that she's going to instrumentality drastic measures to bring down inflation. That was her chance."

President-elect Trump claimed triumph astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center aboriginal Wednesday successful West Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Li besides pointed to concerns astir the enactment of Harris’ Pennsylvania team making mediocre staffing decisions that yet led to muddled run messaging.

"[Harris] heard us. We raised superior concerns astir the Pennsylvania campaign's leadership," Li said. "She really installed idiosyncratic connected her ain radical successful the last weeks of the campaign, but I fearfulness it was excessively late. …We should person radical who profoundly understand, intimately recognize the contours of the authorities alternatively than out-of-state operatives who determination from run to campaign."

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Harris did not talk to supporters who gathered astatine her alma mater overnight. She is expected to talk aboriginal Wednesday.